Sentence examples for motherboard from inspiring English sources

All too often, your correspondent has found himself going to Fry's for a $7 cable, only to come out with a new motherboard that was on special offer, plus a further eight-gigabytes of memory—happily handing over $150 or more for the pleasure in store.

By contrast, Babbage wore out several Dremel cutting and grinding wheels modifying the 12-year-old old case to accommodate a modern motherboard.

All you can usually do is change a complete module, like the motherboard or hard-drive, at a cost of several hundred dollars provided, of course, you have the necessary equipment to detect the fault or "error code" in the first place.Perhaps carmakers should make a "base" model that has no fancy electronic parts and is, like an old Land Rover, bush serviceable.

Meanwhile, set-top boxes such as Apple TV, Roku, TiVo and Vudu are all jockeying to become the television set's primary gateway to the internet.Eventually, all these external services will be built into the television set's motherboard.

"The motherboard is our intellectual property we have a secret sauce to make that," says Gordon Kruberg, the firm's chief executive.

But the Celeron offers surprising bang for the buck, consuming only 35 watts of electricity when running flat out (Xeons need up to 150 watts).It so happened that Fry's Electronics, a big West Coast computer chain, had a 1.8-gigahertz Celeron-430 chip bundled with a nifty Chinese microATX motherboard on offer last week for an irresistible $49.

Back in 2008, two gigabytes of memory the maximum allowed by the motherboard selected at the time for Homebrew seemed more than enough for a modest little server.

Rick Warren, America's favourite preacher, likens his "purpose-driven formula" to an Intel operating chip that can be inserted into the motherboard of any church; there are now more than 100,000 "purpose-driven" churches in 160 countries.

My experience to date: an Apple PowerBook screen that is on the blink, a defective Mac desktop screen, a faulty iBook laptop motherboard, and three dead iPods.

Rick Warren likens his "purpose-driven formula" to an Intel operating chip that can be inserted into the motherboard of any church and points out that there are more than 30,000 "purpose-driven" churches.

This is partly marketing talk: crack open an iPhone and you will find many of the paraphernalia including a motherboard and microchips that make up the guts of a PC too.The Gucci of gadgetsYet Apple has indeed ushered in a new era in which personal technology is finally living up to its name.